News and Analysis 10/11/23

Israel tells Gaza, “No more Mr. Nice Guy,” and then somehow manages to make its siege even more inhumane ….

• Israel Announces ‘Total’ Blockade on Gaza (Aljazeera)
• Overwhelmed Gaza Hospitals ‘Turned into Cemeteries,’ While Entire Neighbourhoods Are Flattened (Middle East Eye)
• Israel Cuts Off Food, Water to Millions of Palestinians, Calling Them ‘Human Animals’ (21st Century Wire)
• Palestinians in Gaza Fear Impact of Siege as Sole Power Plant Shuts Down (The Guardian)
• ‘No One Feels Safe’: Palestinians in Fear as Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza Kill at Least 1,055 People (abc News)
• The Palestine Red Crescent Society Demands Accountability for the Killing of Four of its Paramedics in Gaza (Relief Web)

… but the attention to Gaza doesn’t impede Israel’s continues violence in the West Bank:

• As Gaza War Rages, Israeli Forces Kill 27 Palestinians in West Bank (Reuters)

Journalists @SMArikat, @MaxBlumenthal, and @samhusseini confront Blinken’s hypocritical echo of Israeli propaganda:

• “Will you urge Israel not to starve and slaughter people, please??” (Decensored News / X, [f/k/a Twitter])

Israel was surprised by the violence from Gaza as the Nazi’s were surprised by the violence from Warsaw:

• The Gaza Ghetto Uprising (Counterpunch)

Without Western political support and media complicity “Israel could never have gotten away with its crimes” — Jonathan Cook:

• Israel-Palestine War: The Blood of Gaza is on the West’s Hands as Much as Israel’s (Middle East Eye)

“Although Iran has long supported Hamas with material and financial support, we have not currently seen anything to suggest Iran supported or was behind the attack”:

• Initial US Intelligence Suggests Iran Was Surprised by the Hamas Attack on Israel (CNN)

CAIR and JVP protest two school districts’ emails to “students, families, and community members with “one-sided language”supporting Israel:

• Jewish and Muslim Organizations Condemn LA County School Districts’ Biased Political Statements in Support of Israel (CAIR)

Notoriously unconcerned over under-representation of women in science, Larry Summers is very concerned that Harvard students oppose apartheid:

• Growing Backlash over Harvard Students’ Pro-Palestine Letter (BBC)

Under Islamic law dowry is paid by the groom to the bride, not by the bride’s family to the groom:

• Court In Kashmir’s Awantipora Denies Bail to Groom Accused of Skipping Own Wedding Reception for Not Giving Dowry (Live Law)

“The U.S. admission never translated into compensatory action or a genuine commitment to refrain from future interference, nor did it change its … policy” — Iranian mission to UN:

• CIA Publicly Acknowledges 1953 Coup It Backed in Iran Was Undemocratic (abc News)

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